Recipe book (Gaster Amulet 175)
Fragment from a recipe book.
Information about this document
- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Gaster Amulet Collection
- Classmark: Gaster Amulet 175
- Title: Recipe book
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Subject(s): Amulets; Jewish magic
- Origin Place: Place of origin not known.
- Date of Creation: 11th-12th century
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Quotation(s):"גבר לגבר או בין גבר [ ] סיטידון וטמור יתיה [ ] [ש]מך רחמנא מרחמנא [ ] ויתהפיך ליבא דפב"פ [ ] סדום ועמורה כן [ ] פב"פ בשם להמיאל [ ] בשם נמואל ובשם [ ]ל ובשם יה וה יה [...] לאהבה בשם [ ] לפני מלך מלכי [ ] הקב"ה..."
- Note(s):
Contains two recipes. The first appears to be a recipe for making two people hate each other. A second recipe is for love.
Divine names are marked with overlines. A different section (i.e., the second recipe) is indicated by two small circles.
- Format: Sheet
- Material(s): Paper
- Extent: height: 165 mm, width: 80 mm.
- Function: For love and, most probably, also for hate
- Shape: The original rectangle has been torn into an irregular shape.
- Condition:
Fragment with uneven edges; tears along the edges, liquid damage, usage stains.
This item is glued into a notebook and only one side of it is visible.
- Layout: A single column.
- Script:
Hebrew Oriental semi-square script.
- Provenance:
Cairo Genizah?
- Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
- Date of Acquisition: 1954
- Data Source(s): Catalogue description is by Gal Sofer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva); edited by Zsófia Buda.
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- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Gaster Amulet Collection
- Classmark: Gaster Amulet 175
- Title: Recipe book
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Subject(s): Amulets; Jewish magic
- Origin Place: Place of origin not known.
- Date of Creation: 11th-12th century
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Quotation(s):"גבר לגבר או בין גבר [ ] סיטידון וטמור יתיה [ ] [ש]מך רחמנא מרחמנא [ ] ויתהפיך ליבא דפב"פ [ ] סדום ועמורה כן [ ] פב"פ בשם להמיאל [ ] בשם נמואל ובשם [ ]ל ובשם יה וה יה [...] לאהבה בשם [ ] לפני מלך מלכי [ ] הקב"ה..."
- Note(s):
Contains two recipes. The first appears to be a recipe for making two people hate each other. A second recipe is for love.
Divine names are marked with overlines. A different section (i.e., the second recipe) is indicated by two small circles.
- Format: Sheet
- Material(s): Paper
- Extent: height: 165 mm, width: 80 mm.
- Function: For love and, most probably, also for hate
- Shape: The original rectangle has been torn into an irregular shape.
- Condition:
Fragment with uneven edges; tears along the edges, liquid damage, usage stains.
This item is glued into a notebook and only one side of it is visible.
- Layout: A single column.
- Script:
Hebrew Oriental semi-square script.
- Provenance:
Cairo Genizah?
- Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
- Date of Acquisition: 1954
- Data Source(s): Catalogue description is by Gal Sofer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva); edited by Zsófia Buda.
